Agnes and Nick visited the Trowunna Wildlife Park on Tuesday and joined visitors in a unique and unforgettable wildlife experience. Trowunna has become such an animal friendly place that much of the wildlife is drawn to the sanctuary as a natural safe haven.

Trowunna Wildlife Park is privately owned and an accredited tourism business of Australia. Open seven days, Trowunna is renowned for its interactive approach to wildlife education.

Trowunna started caring for native animals in 1979, and continues to house the world's biggest heritage population of endangered Tasmanian Devils. Visitors can see Tasmanian Devils being hand fed, pat baby wombats, while experiencing an informative and personalised guided tour. There are also echidnas, eagles, kangaroos, snakes, waterfowl and quolls.

Tassie Devils at Trowunna Wildlife Park

"Trowunna Wildlife park has over 60 devils", Agnes said. "They are the biggest contributors to the Tasmanian Devil conservation program". "The Devil Education and Research Visitor Centre at Trowunna aims to highlight the unique carnivorous mammals that live in Tasmania", she said.

Trowunna consists of several micro-habitats perfectly suited to unique native fauna, enabling the park to provide a sanctuary for a wide range of Tasmanian native wildlife.

Trowunna is an integral part of the larger picture of wildlife in Tasmania. Centrally set amongst varying environments, Trowunna provides an oasis to transient and migratory wildlife looking to travel through what are, sometimes hostile environments.

Trowunna's location is a crossroad where animals from alpine, forested, and coastal regions can meet and traverse across safely.

The park is situated on 65 acres of natural vegetation including giant eucalypts, acacias with kangaroos, pademelons, wallabies, potoroos and wombats roaming around the park at their leisure.

Bird species that visitors can view include Goshawk, Falcon, Honey Eaters, Wrens and Rosella to name a few and all nest within the parks forest. Other wildlife consists of quolls, bandicoot and bats mainly seen at night.

Kids love patting the Tassie Devil at Trowunna Wildlife Park

Trowunna is committed to caring for injured and orphaned wildlife.

The park becomes a release site for many of these animals through a process called 'soft release'. Releasing straight into the wild, known as 'hard release', often does not work because the animal has lost some of its wild instinct.

Soft release is where the animal is cared for at the park and after a while, let roam freely around while its progress is monitored. Release into the wild after this process is much more successful.

The park includes a kiosk, gift shop, childrens playground, barbecue and picnic areas.

Agnes and Nick also cruised their Tassie Motor Shacks campervan to Chudleigh Honey Farm shop while on route from Deloraine to Mole Creek in Northern Tasmania. Chudleigh is 15 km west of Deloraine, along the B12 which connects Deloraine with Mole Creek and Cradle Mountain.

"Of course bees wax furniture polish is another Chudleigh Honey Farm product. There are also bee toys and gifts and clothing", Agnes said. There are many varieties of honey available and they include Manuka Honey which is popular due to its potential healing and health benefits.

We house the world's biggest heritage population of endangeredTasmanian Devils.Visitors can see Tasmanian Devils and baby wombats being hand fed while experiencing an informative and personalised guided tour.
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